Improved journal-box



esta s W time @tutti GEORGE H. HENFIELD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. Letters Patent No. 83,961, dated Nooembm 10, 1868.

IMIPROVED JOURNAL-BOX.

The Schedule referr'ed to in these Letters Patent'and making prt of the same.

To all whom it mtl/y conce/m:

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lr*Figure 2 is a cross-section, taken in the line yy,

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Figure 3 is an inside View of my improved journalbox.

Figure 4 is an end view.

'Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention; relates to improvements in the construction of bearings for railroad-car axles, or other journals, and consists in forming a brass or other metal attachment, in connection with acast-iron box or shell, insuch manner as to hold securely in placea-s hereinafter described.

A represents an outside cast-iron she or box, on the inner sident? 'Whicllare tted section -of Babbitmetal bearings, B B, which set in their bed, and are held in place by pins, Yt a, that pass. through holes, c o, in the shell A. y

A brass or iron frame, G, is made to .t around the outer sides of the Babbit-metal bearings B B, having sections of Babbit or other soft metal for the bearings,

a centre-bar, b, running longitudinally, with the box betweenthem, and secured to the shell A by pins d d, on the centre-bar b, which pass through holes, e e, in the shell, and are to be riveted on the outside, or may be threaded and held with nuts. l

To prevent endwise and lateral movement ot' the frame C, and keep it firmly iu place, the ends are dove- .tailed in dovetail-recesses, h h, in the cast-ironshell A.y

The outer projectingend ofthe shell A is strengthcned to prevent it from breaking off by excessive pressure, to which railroad-car boxes are exposed, by casting lips or corner-pieces, k It, connecting the sides and top of the shell.

Having thus described my invention, A

.I claim as new, and desire to seeure by Letters Patentl. The frame O, having aoentre-bar, b, secured to.

the shell A by pins d d, and dovetailed ends in the recesses h It, in combination with the soft-metal bearings B B, separated by the single longitudinal barb', substantially described.

2. The frame C, surrounding and separating longitudinally the soft-metal bearings B B, the latter secured tothe shell A by pins e, and the former by pins d, and dovetail-recesses h h, protected and strengthened by the corner-pieces lo 7c, cast upon the shell, as herein shown' and described.

The above specification oniy invention signed by me, this 14th day of October,- 1867.

4 GEORGE H. HENFIELD.

Witnesses:

R. P. LEWIS, W. 0. ANDREWS. 

